This virtual summit will bring together leaders across workforce, foster care, juvenile justice, and healthcare to explore strategies for better protecting at-risk youth and building community pathways to safety and opportunity.
The Young Center’s Houston office is hiring for multiple positions, including a Managing Attorney, Staff Attorney, and Case Support Associate.
CICW Director Kristina Lovato delivered a keynote address at the Meeting the Moment: Immigration and Child Welfare conference in Brooklyn Center, MN. Her talk, Navigating Care Amid Immigration Enforcement: Child Welfare and Social Service Responses to Vulnerable Children and Families, explored how child welfare and social service systems are responding to the needs of children and families affected by immigration enforcement.
This issue of CW360° — featuring contributions from several members of the CICW research workgroup — offers a timely examination of how the current sociopolitical landscape and immigration status shape the lives of families, unaccompanied minors, and transition-age youth navigating an uncertain child welfare landscape.
ISS-USA is actively recruiting social work professionals nationwide, with urgent openings in Oregon, New York, Maine, Alabama, and Pennsylvania (bilingual Spanish required).
This multi-part webinar series offers schools and community organizations trauma-informed, research-backed strategies for supporting immigrant students and families amid escalating immigration enforcement.
This interview with Dr. Kristina Lovato, director of the Center on Immigration and Child Welfare, explores how immigration enforcement and deportation-related family separation shape the well-being of immigrant children and families, and what practitioners, researchers, and legal professionals can do to better support them.
Advocates in Illinois are trying to pass Ashley’s Bill, legislation that would allow abused, abandoned, or neglected children in federal custody to petition for the legal findings needed to apply for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status and a pathway to residency. Sign-on to support Ashley’s bill.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has proposed a rule that could end rental assistance for mixed-status families, putting thousands of households at risk of eviction, separation, or homelessness. Submit a comment opposing the rule by April 21, 2026.
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